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| 1. UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour 2. Arrest of Munther Amira, Chairman of the Board of the Aida Youth Center 3. Updates from The Freedom Theatre in Jenin 4. At Christmas – an open letter from 12 Palestinian Christian groups 5. How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza 6. What does it mean to erase a people – a nation, culture, identity? 7. Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza. How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent? 8. Press conference with Dr Ben Thompson from North America Medical Doctors 9. What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a ‘normal pathological organisation’ within psychoanalysis 10. Brian Cox reading If I Must Die 11. Infographic of the work of Dr Samah Jabr 1. UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour Friday 22 December at 13:00 (UK time) A reflective space to support one another, discuss and take actions together Please mail ukpalmhn@gmail.com for the Zoom link. 2. Arrest of Munther Amira, Chairman of the Board of the Aida Youth Center In the early hours of 18 December Munther Amira was violently arrested in his home in Aida camp near Bethlehem in the West Bank. Further details of the violent arrest are here https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/palestinian-activist-munther-amira-tied-up-beaten-and-arrested-by-israeli-forces-in-aida-refugee-camp/ This follows the arrest of Anas Abu Srour, the Executive Director of the Youth Center on 29 November. Full details are available on the Aida Youth Center Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/aidacenter.org The Aida Youth Center has organised two petitions calling for their release: #FreeAnasAbuSrour: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4jrwzVo08FdikvEEtdn1Rhh0qAQnFQoESj2K6T01lP_syJw/viewform #FreeMuntherAmira: https://www.change.org/p/free-munther-amira?recruiter=1324159610&recruited_by_id=2b2c8eb0-9d7c-11ee-98e6-e58dbbf17381 3. Updates from The Freedom Theatre in Jenin On 13 December, Israeli soldiers attacked The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, shooting at the building, destroying offices and assaulting its staff. Artistic Director Ahmed Tobasi, Producer Mustafa Sheta, and theatre graduate Jamal Abu Joas were taken from their homes and detained. Jamal was severely beaten. Ahmed Tobasi has since been released, also beaten. His colleagues, along with approximately 100 other Palestinians taken hostage from Jenin, remain detained. This follows the murder of three members of The Freedom Theatre in the last few weeks. Ongoing updates are available on the Freedom Theatre Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thefreedomtheatre There is an open letter calling for the release of the culture workers who have been arrested: https://forms.gle/7S3mgPe79wr8X5bZ8 The Freedom Theatre are particularly interested to hear from those working within the theatre industry. 4. At Christmas – an open letter from 12 Palestinian Christian groups to western church leaders and theologians Finally, and we say it with a broken heart, we hold western church leaders and theologians who rally behind Israel’s wars accountable for their theological and political complicity in the Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, which have been committed over the last 75 years. We call upon them to reexamine their positions and to change their direction, remembering that God “will judge the world in justice” (Acts 17:31). https://www.defenddemocracy.press/an-open-letter-from-palestinian-christians-to-western-church-leaders-and-theologians/ 5. How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza In a recent newsletter we linked to a detailed Israeli report called ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza.The report cites the concerns of Israeli whistleblowers that Israel’s AI system is generating targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs. The report has gained worldwide attention. https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ Below is a link to a blog post that provides a shorter summary of the report: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-israel-uses-an-ai-genocide-program 6. What does it mean to erase a people – a nation, culture, identity? In Gaza, we are beginning to find out Artists killed, journalists silenced, libraries and mosques destroyed. What will be left to bind the survivors together? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/18/gaza-israel-destroying-culture-and-identity 7. Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza. How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent? By Amira Hass an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, where she has lived for almost thirty years. For decades we’ve been brought up believing that only military force can ensure the state’s survival, while denying rights to the Palestinians. That’s just one of many sad answers to the question https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-killed-thousands-of-children-in-gaza-how-can-so-many-israelis-remain-indifferent 8. Press conference with Dr Ben Thompson from North America Medical Doctors We are reaching the point of no return where blatant disregard for International Humanitarian Law scars our collective consciousness https://www.tiktok.com/@bass_la/video/7310440822414085419 9. What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a ‘normal pathological organisation’ within psychoanalysis by UK-Palestine Mental Health Network members Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto Psychoanalytic discourse in relation to the situation in historic Palestine is subject to both ideologically-based and anxiety-driven inhibitions and restrictions that conflict with the discipline’s claim to be able to “stay with” difficult issues, to “think the unthinkable”. This situation is understood as a social pathology, and its impacts are explored through a literature review. Final chance to read this on free access, at this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1825 10. Palestine Festival of Literature recording of Brian Cox reading If I Must Die by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. His body is unburied under the rubble https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0xRMCuIKcj/ 11. Infographic of the work of Dr Samah Jabr Mental health under occupation: resistance, trauma and colonisation in Palestine https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samah-jabr-25509883_thanks-to-keri-caring-for-activists-for-activity-7141090607480946690-Nt7y/  |
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